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    Audiobook10 hours

    Brood

    Written by Chase Novak

    Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers and Kevin T. Collins

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    About this audiobook

    Two teenagers struggle with a horrific family legacy in the sequel to Chase Novak's novel, Breed.

    Thirteen years ago, a radical fertility doctor helped bring Adam and Alice Twisden into the world. The treatment came at a great cost: it turned the twins' parents into barbarous animals and threatens to transform the children, too. As Adam and Alice find themselves on the brink of maturity, they starve themselves in a desperate attempt to stop their bodies from changing. Will they succumb to the same bodily horrors that destroyed their parents?
    Their aunt, Cynthia, who has always wanted to be a mother, oversees renovations to the Twisden family's Upper East Side residence-violently torn apart by the children's parents--and struggles to give her niece and nephew the unconditional love and stable home life they never had. Meanwhile, in the world outside, the forces of good and evil collide as a troop of wild teenagers, growing steadily in number, threatens to invade the calm refuge Cynthia is so determined to construct behind the safety of the Twisdens' walls.
    As New York City transforms into a battleground, Adam and Alice will have to decide where their loyalties lie. They are determined to lead normal lives--and yet their unnatural urges, which grow ever stronger by the day, can only be stifled for so long...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 7, 2014
    ISBN9781619694675
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    • 4/5
      Great follow up! Truth is, I want more of his writings!
    • 1/5
      How excited I was when I realized there was a sequel to Breed! Breed had such an interesting premise and a sequel had so much potential. Unfortunately, that did not happen in "Brood".
      This is quite possibly one of the worst sequels to any book I have ever read. The "children" are now Jar Jar Binks on steroids. The story is completely diluted with Dennis, the kidnapper (whom, I believe, was created for the simple reason of the authors....misguided (?) belief that fans of his first book would enjoy exploration of defecation and urination in regards to sexual acts) (gross), Cynthia, the moronic aunt and the starts and complete stops of side-stories that never concluded or went absolutely no where! Towards the end, we are given a "social morality speech" which literally comes out of nowhere and has absolutely nothing to do with what is going on at the moment. I believe the author wrote this novel to simply fulfill a contractual obligation and unfortunately, any fans of the first book had to suffer through the 10+ hours of this second installment (if you could even complete it). Really just one of the worst examples of the "throwing your hands in the air because you just don't care" attitudes.
    • 5/5
      good story, I am still trying too figure out what the twins are though...... can't wait for the next installment
    • 2/5
      I felt that the author was spending so much time being over descriptive that it lacked content.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this sequel as much as the first book. I found the imagery very entertaining, as long as you don't mind some gore, it's interesting, a pretty decent horror novel.
    • 2/5
      After I listened for ten hours with excitement as Cynthia, Adam and Alice tripped through their explorations, I am devastated by the ending.

      Brood was presented to me after I listened to Breed. Chase Novak's detail of New York City were accurate and my favorite background for fiction titles.

      Albeit, their "mom" dumped them in the woods after they saved her from rape. I am gravely disappointed by the way Chase Novak ended his novel.
    • 5/5
      GREAT!! This is book 2 in the two book series BREED/BROOD. I enjoyed both books very much. I just finished listening to this one, and the ending was SO chilling, I got goosebumps! Really, really good! Great beginning/ending music as well, perfect fit for the subject matter.

      The writing is good; the plot is fascinating; I was totally attracted to the cover art (beautiful black and white photo which immediately grabbed my attention), as well as very well narrated by both the male and female narrators.

      I guess this book would mostly fall into the category of Horror. However, there is quite a bit of humor sprinkled throughout, coming to mind in particular one scene in the beginning where the author has the non-Jews, and even a Korean, throwing around Yiddish terms. Very, very laugh out loud funny!! ?

      In conclusion, this is a great listen which, I think, deserves more attention than it seems to have gotten so far.....☺️. Check it out!!
    • 2/5
      A generation ago many families used an untested, unapproved fertility serum from Europe that promised success for those that had been trying to have children. Unfortunately the side effects turned the parents into some-type of fully-body haired, hideous monsters that ate the family pets, and the odd human or two, usually in front of their growing children.
      This group of kids, now known as the brood, do everything possible to stave off puberty thinking that they too will end up running down Main Street, naked, hairy and on all-fours. Novak brings us a book that could be described as Midwich Cuckoos meets Peter Pan, except all the Lost Boys are off fornicating and giving birth to children with wings, and nowhere near as cute as Tinkerbell.
      Some of the children’s blood has found to have powers that rejuvenate older people’s love lives and so the group, most who live together in packs, find a way to syphon off and sell their precious commodity. A Big Brother operation is also in operation, kidnapping the kids off the street to gauge their blood and make a killing in the pharmaceutical market.

      We follow the path of creepy twins, Adam & Alice, who at thirteen are on the brink of puberty. Their parents are dead and they are being watched over by a spinster aunt who finds out she has more than normal troubles to deal with looking out for these unruly teenagers. As she tries to confine them to her loving embrace they hanker to be in the park with Rodolfo the leader of the pack. Is there a way to stop the teenagers’ hormones from kicking into over-gear? Aunt Cynthia sure seems to think she has the answers, and leads you alternatively gasping and gagging on this riot through Central Park.
      This was one of the most distasteful books I ever read - from the descriptions of geriatric sex, with men whose breath smelled like old scabs, to a scene where children tear a police officer into pieces and eviscerate him to eat him, however I can’t stop talking about how disgusting it was. Read it, having been warned.
    • 2/5
      The thing about him is— Jesus, I don’t even want to write this down. It will be like proof that I’ve started to go mad… and if I do go mad, those kids will really and truly disappear into the grinding machinery of the child-care system that processes kids like sausage meat. But here it is anyhow: Dylan’s hands glow in the dark.So after not liking the first book I continued on to the sequel only because I had already committed to read it on Netgalley. I, once again, found myself struggling through this one and had to force myself to sit down and read just like I had to force myself to take disgusting tasting cough syrup as a child. It is really hard to find the motivation to follow characters that you don't like or at times don't understand.This book starts a little while after the first one ended. Adam and Alice are now going to be living with their aunt Cynthia. Cynthia is absolutely dying to be a mother so she jumps at the chance to become a mother to the traumatized twins. I felt that Cynthia was pathetic, naive, and annoying as hell. She just thought they could be one happy family and wouldn't really get the help the kids needed. She was clueless and was definitely not their mother. I haven't wanted a character to die this much in a long time.If having annoying Cynthia in this book isn't enough for you, readers also get to follow a pack of wild children who speak like cavemen. It was an absolute headache trying to read any dialogue involving the wild children. Of course the only one who speaks normally, Polly, happens to be the one that I hate the most. Here is a little glimpse of how the wild children spoke:“They are taking us’s brothers and sisters. Who is doing this to us’s? This we’s must know.”I didn't really enjoy the whole side plot with Dennis. It didn't really help move the story along. In fact the plot progression really lacked in this. Not much actually happened, once again it was a lot of running but this time we added Cynthia worrying constantly to the plot. I was once again left completely unsatisfied with the ending. The ending felt like a fizzle when the author realized he was running out of pages. I am not sure if there will be any sequels to this but I do know that if there are I won't be reading them.

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